Yes Ted, I'm positive that Big Pharma is not supposed to be bribing doctors directly.
Are free dinners a bribe? Are free hunting or boating trips a bribe? Are significant free samples of prescription drugs a bribe? You tell me.
I'm not naive enough to think it doesn't happen, but that has nothing to do with why doctors generally don't recommend holistic medicine.
It's simple, really. No research, no basis for recommendation.
The Buteyko Method [BM], the 'holistic' therapy I am using to lessen my asthma and COPD has more research behind it than any drug currently on the market. It has gone through more than three sets of clinical trials in three separate countries. And yet whenever I ask a pulmonologist about the Method, they shrug their shoulders. Just so that you know when I started the Method, I was getting bronchitis every 3-4 months, was allergic to a multitude of foods including peanuts, olive oil, barbecued spareribs, prime rib, cheese, etc, I was lactose intolerant, I was so allergic to dust mites that sitting on a cloth chair would have my eyes red, my head pounding and my lungs wheezing within an hour, I woke up nearly every morning with huge cramps in my legs that was some of the worse pain I have ever experienced, regularly got muscle cramps throughout my body during the course of the day, was perennially tired, suffered anxiety attacks on a regular basis and the very worst......experienced the fight or flight syndrome 24/7. None...absolutely none of the drugs gave me very much relief.....only the steroids and bronchodilators would allow me to function somewhat. If it wasn't for the Buteyko Method, I would have suicided by now. And yet, ask an American doctor about the Buteyko Method, and you get either a weird look or one of disgust.
Why? There are no drugs behind the Method. Its a therapy for bolstering one's immune system in a natural way without drugs. American MDs want nothing to do with it. Why do you think that is? And let me make clear.......the BM therapy is listed in the New England Journal of Medicine.......a notation not to be taken lightly.
BTW after getting bronchitis for 8 years straight......I haven't had bronchitis in 3 years. Within a year after starting the Method, I would get bronchitis only three times per year instead of 4; within two years, only twice per year, and then the last year...once. |
